benchmark results [again]

Mon Feb 7 18:23:00 GMT 2005

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
>> Its great to see that GCJ is competitive here! Note that with this sort 
> of runtime, startup time can be a significant factor in your results, 
> and GCJ should always beat JITs there. It might be interesting to see 
> what happens with a larger data sets and thus longer runtimes. On some 
> benchmarks I've noticed that GCJ wins easily on smaller data sets but 
> Sun's Hotspot VM gains back the lead as the runtimes increase and it has 
> more time to optimize.

FWIW, the new JRE (1.5.0, J2SE 5, Java 5, <whatever>) has
a feature called Class Data Sharing (CDS) that might help
Sun's JRE startup times:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/vm/class-data-sharing.html
Ranjit.
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